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* winio: Flush event logs eagerly.Tamar Christina2020-07-152-0/+3
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* eventlog: Fix racy flushingBen Gamari2020-05-271-1/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | Previously no attempt was made to avoid multiple threads writing their capability-local eventlog buffers to the eventlog writer simultaneously. This could result in multiple eventlog streams being interleaved. Fix this by documenting that the EventLogWriter's write() and flush() functions may be called reentrantly and fix the default writer to protect its FILE* by a mutex. Fixes #18210.
* rts: Expose interface for configuring EventLogWritersBen Gamari2019-11-233-25/+82
| | | | | | This exposes a set of interfaces from the GHC API for configuring EventLogWriters. These can be used by consumers like [ghc-eventlog-socket](https://github.com/bgamari/ghc-eventlog-socket).
* Merge non-moving garbage collectorBen Gamari2019-10-232-3/+82
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This introduces a concurrent mark & sweep garbage collector to manage the old generation. The concurrent nature of this collector typically results in significantly reduced maximum and mean pause times in applications with large working sets. Due to the large and intricate nature of the change I have opted to preserve the fully-buildable history, including merge commits, which is described in the "Branch overview" section below. Collector design ================ The full design of the collector implemented here is described in detail in a technical note > B. Gamari. "A Concurrent Garbage Collector For the Glasgow Haskell > Compiler" (2018) This document can be requested from @bgamari. The basic heap structure used in this design is heavily inspired by > K. Ueno & A. Ohori. "A fully concurrent garbage collector for > functional programs on multicore processors." /ACM SIGPLAN Notices/ > Vol. 51. No. 9 (presented at ICFP 2016) This design is intended to allow both marking and sweeping concurrent to execution of a multi-core mutator. Unlike the Ueno design, which requires no global synchronization pauses, the collector introduced here requires a stop-the-world pause at the beginning and end of the mark phase. To avoid heap fragmentation, the allocator consists of a number of fixed-size /sub-allocators/. Each of these sub-allocators allocators into its own set of /segments/, themselves allocated from the block allocator. Each segment is broken into a set of fixed-size allocation blocks (which back allocations) in addition to a bitmap (used to track the liveness of blocks) and some additional metadata (used also used to track liveness). This heap structure enables collection via mark-and-sweep, which can be performed concurrently via a snapshot-at-the-beginning scheme (although concurrent collection is not implemented in this patch). Implementation structure ======================== The majority of the collector is implemented in a handful of files: * `rts/Nonmoving.c` is the heart of the beast. It implements the entry-point to the nonmoving collector (`nonmoving_collect`), as well as the allocator (`nonmoving_allocate`) and a number of utilities for manipulating the heap. * `rts/NonmovingMark.c` implements the mark queue functionality, update remembered set, and mark loop. * `rts/NonmovingSweep.c` implements the sweep loop. * `rts/NonmovingScav.c` implements the logic necessary to scavenge the nonmoving heap. Branch overview =============== ``` * wip/gc/opt-pause: | A variety of small optimisations to further reduce pause times. | * wip/gc/compact-nfdata: | Introduce support for compact regions into the non-moving |\ collector | \ | \ | | * wip/gc/segment-header-to-bdescr: | | | Another optimization that we are considering, pushing | | | some segment metadata into the segment descriptor for | | | the sake of locality during mark | | | | * | wip/gc/shortcutting: | | | Support for indirection shortcutting and the selector optimization | | | in the non-moving heap. | | | * | | wip/gc/docs: | |/ Work on implementation documentation. | / |/ * wip/gc/everything: | A roll-up of everything below. |\ | \ | |\ | | \ | | * wip/gc/optimize: | | | A variety of optimizations, primarily to the mark loop. | | | Some of these are microoptimizations but a few are quite | | | significant. In particular, the prefetch patches have | | | produced a nontrivial improvement in mark performance. | | | | | * wip/gc/aging: | | | Enable support for aging in major collections. | | | | * | wip/gc/test: | | | Fix up the testsuite to more or less pass. | | | * | | wip/gc/instrumentation: | | | A variety of runtime instrumentation including statistics | | / support, the nonmoving census, and eventlog support. | |/ | / |/ * wip/gc/nonmoving-concurrent: | The concurrent write barriers. | * wip/gc/nonmoving-nonconcurrent: | The nonmoving collector without the write barriers necessary | for concurrent collection. | * wip/gc/preparation: | A merge of the various preparatory patches that aren't directly | implementing the GC. | | * GHC HEAD . . . ```
| * NonmovingCensus: Emit samples to eventlogwip/gc/instrumentationBen Gamari2019-10-222-1/+21
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| * rts/Eventlog: More descriptive error messageBen Gamari2019-10-221-2/+4
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| * rts: Tracing support for nonmoving collection eventsBen Gamari2019-10-222-1/+58
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This introduces a few events to mark key points in the nonmoving garbage collection cycle. These include: * `EVENT_CONC_MARK_BEGIN`, denoting the beginning of a round of marking. This may happen more than once in a single major collection since we the major collector iterates until it hits a fixed point. * `EVENT_CONC_MARK_END`, denoting the end of a round of marking. * `EVENT_CONC_SYNC_BEGIN`, denoting the beginning of the post-mark synchronization phase * `EVENT_CONC_UPD_REM_SET_FLUSH`, indicating that a capability has flushed its update remembered set. * `EVENT_CONC_SYNC_END`, denoting that all mutators have flushed their update remembered sets. * `EVENT_CONC_SWEEP_BEGIN`, denoting the beginning of the sweep portion of the major collection. * `EVENT_CONC_SWEEP_END`, denoting the end of the sweep portion of the major collection.
* | eventlog: Dump cost centre stack on each sampleMatthew Pickering2019-10-232-0/+53
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With this change it is possible to reconstruct the timing portion of a `.prof` file after the fact. By logging the stacks at each time point a more precise executation trace of the program can be observed rather than all identical cost centres being identified in the report. There are two new events: 1. `EVENT_PROF_BEGIN` - emitted at the start of profiling to communicate the tick interval 2. `EVENT_PROF_SAMPLE_COST_CENTRE` - emitted on each tick to communicate the current call stack. Fixes #17322
* eventlog: Add biographical and retainer profiling tracesMatthew Pickering2019-09-172-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new eventlog event which indicates the start of a biographical profiler sample. These are different to normal events as they also include the timestamp of when the census took place. This is because the LDV profiler only emits samples at the end of the run. Now all the different profiling modes emit consumable events to the eventlog.
* rts: Always truncate output filesBen Gamari2019-08-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Previously there were numerous places in the RTS where we would fopen with the "w" flag string. This is wrong as it will not truncate the file. Consequently if we write less data than the previous length of the file we will leave garbage at its end. Fixes #16993.
* rts: Separate population of eventTypes from initial event generationBen Gamari2019-06-091-8/+17
| | | | | | Previously these two orthogonal concerns were both implemented in postHeaderEvents which made it difficult to send header events after RTS initialization.
* Add HEAP_PROF_SAMPLE_END event to mark end of samplesMatthew Pickering2019-06-072-0/+15
| | | | | | | This allows a user to observe how long a sampling period lasts so that the time taken can be removed from the profiling output. Fixes #16697
* rts: Allow output filename of eventlog to be given by command-lineBen Gamari2018-11-021-27/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This introduces the `+RTS -ol` flag, which allows user to specify the destination file for eventlog output. Test Plan: Validate with included test Reviewers: simonmar, erikd Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, carter Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5293
* eventlog: Factor out eventlog header generation into separate functionBen Gamari2018-09-131-35/+40
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* Add traceBinaryEvent# primopMitsutoshi Aoe2018-08-212-6/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new primop called traceBinaryEvent# that takes the length of binary data and a pointer to the data, then emits it to the eventlog. There is some example code that uses this primop and the new event: * [traceBinaryEventIO][1] that calls `traceBinaryEvent#` * [A patch to ghc-events][2] that parses the new `EVENT_USER_BINARY_MSG` There's no corresponding issue on Trac but it was discussed at ghc-devs [3]. [1] https://github.com/maoe/ghc-trace-events/blob /fb226011ef1f85a97b4da7cc9d5f98f9fe6316ae/src/Debug/Trace/Binary.hs#L29) [2] https://github.com/maoe/ghc-events/commit /239ca77c24d18cdd10d6d85a0aef98e4a7c56ae6) [3] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-May/015791.html Reviewers: bgamari, erikd, simonmar Reviewed By: bgamari Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5007
* Remove MAX_PATH restrictions from RTS, I/O manager and various utilitiesTamar Christina2018-03-311-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Summary: This shims out fopen and sopen so that they use modern APIs under the hood along with namespaced paths. This lifts the MAX_PATH restrictions from Haskell programs and makes the new limit ~32k. There are only some slight caveats that have been documented. Some utilities have not been upgraded such as lndir, since all these things are different cabal packages I have been forced to copy the source in different places which is less than ideal. But it's the only way to keep sdist working. Test Plan: ./validate Reviewers: hvr, bgamari, erikd, simonmar Reviewed By: bgamari Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter GHC Trac Issues: #10822 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4416
* rts: Add heap breakdown type for -hTBen Gamari2017-09-051-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Test Plan: Build, program with `-eventlog`, try running with `+RTS -h` Reviewers: austin, erikd, simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie GHC Trac Issues: #14096 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3922
* eventlog: Clean up profiling heap breakdown typeBen Gamari2017-09-051-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Reviewers: austin, erikd, simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie GHC Trac Issues: #14096 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3923
* Fix Work Balance computation in RTS statsDouglas Wilson2017-07-112-5/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An additional stat is tracked per gc: par_balanced_copied This is the the number of bytes copied by each gc thread under the balanced lmit, which is simply (copied_bytes / num_gc_threads). The stat is added to all the appropriate GC structures, so is visible in the eventlog and in GHC.Stats. A note is added explaining how work balance is computed. Remove some end of line whitespace Test Plan: ./validate experiment with the program attached to the ticket examine code changes carefully Reviewers: simonmar, austin, hvr, bgamari, erikd Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: Phyx, rwbarton, thomie GHC Trac Issues: #13830 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3658
* rts: A bit of cleanup around the eventlogBen Gamari2017-06-191-67/+30
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* Prefer #if defined to #ifdefBen Gamari2017-04-283-12/+12
| | | | Our new CPP linter enforces this.
* cpp: Use #pragma once instead of #ifndef guardsBen Gamari2017-04-231-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This both says what we mean and silences a bunch of spurious CPP linting warnings. This pragma is supported by all CPP implementations which we support. Reviewers: austin, erikd, simonmar, hvr Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3482
* Abstract over the way eventlogs are flushedalexbiehl2017-01-313-78/+175
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently eventlog data is always written to a file `progname.eventlog`. This patch introduces the `flushEventLog` field in `RtsConfig` which allows to customize the writing of eventlog data. One possible scenario is the ongoing live-profile-monitor effort by @NCrashed which slurps all eventlog data through `fluchEventLog`. `flushEventLog` takes a buffer with eventlog data and its size and returns `false` (0) in case eventlog data could not be procesed. Reviewers: simonmar, austin, erikd, bgamari Reviewed By: simonmar, bgamari Subscribers: qnikst, thomie, NCrashed Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2934
* Log heap profiler samples to event logBen Gamari2016-07-162-0/+203
| | | | | | | | | | | | Test Plan: Try it Reviewers: hvr, simonmar, austin, erikd Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1722 GHC Trac Issues: #11094
* NUMA supportSimon Marlow2016-06-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Summary: The aim here is to reduce the number of remote memory accesses on systems with a NUMA memory architecture, typically multi-socket servers. Linux provides a NUMA API for doing two things: * Allocating memory local to a particular node * Binding a thread to a particular node When given the +RTS --numa flag, the runtime will * Determine the number of NUMA nodes (N) by querying the OS * Assign capabilities to nodes, so cap C is on node C%N * Bind worker threads on a capability to the correct node * Keep a separate free lists in the block layer for each node * Allocate the nursery for a capability from node-local memory * Allocate blocks in the GC from node-local memory For example, using nofib/parallel/queens on a 24-core 2-socket machine: ``` $ ./Main 15 +RTS -N24 -s -A64m Total time 173.960s ( 7.467s elapsed) $ ./Main 15 +RTS -N24 -s -A64m --numa Total time 150.836s ( 6.423s elapsed) ``` The biggest win here is expected to be allocating from node-local memory, so that means programs using a large -A value (as here). According to perf, on this program the number of remote memory accesses were reduced by more than 50% by using `--numa`. Test Plan: * validate * There's a new flag --debug-numa=<n> that pretends to do NUMA without actually making the OS calls, which is useful for testing the code on non-NUMA systems. * TODO: I need to add some unit tests Reviewers: erikd, austin, rwbarton, ezyang, bgamari, hvr, niteria Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2199
* rts: Replace `nat` with `uint32_t`Erik de Castro Lopo2016-05-052-19/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | The `nat` type was an alias for `unsigned int` with a comment saying it was at least 32 bits. We keep the typedef in case client code is using it but mark it as deprecated. Test Plan: Validated on Linux, OS X and Windows Reviewers: simonmar, austin, thomie, hvr, bgamari, hsyl20 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2166
* EventLog: Loop fwrite if necessary during flushBen Gamari2015-11-011-10/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously the eventlog flush code would fail if `fwrite` wrote less than the requested amount. Like all Unix stream I/O operations, however, `fwrite` isn't guaranteed to write the entire buffer. Here we loop as long as `fwrite` succeeds in writing anything. Fixes #11041. Test Plan: Validate with eventlog Reviewers: austin, simonmar Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1415 GHC Trac Issues: #11041
* tracing: Kill EVENT_STARTUPBen Gamari2015-09-052-16/+0
| | | | | This has been unnecessary for quite some time due to the create/delete capability events.
* EventLog: Factor out ensureRoomFor*EventBen Gamari2015-09-051-83/+41
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* Don't truncate traceEvents to 512 bytes (#8309)Thomas Miedema2015-02-172-12/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Summary: Don't call postLogMsg to post a user msg, because it truncates messages to 512 bytes. Rename traceCap_stderr and trace_stderr to vtraceCap_stderr and trace_stderr, to signal that they take a va_list (similar to vdebugBelch vs debugBelch). See #3874 for the original reason behind traceFormatUserMsg. See the commit msg in #9395 (d360d440) for a discussion about using null-terminated strings vs strings with an explicit length. Test Plan: Run `cabal install ghc-events` and inspect the result of `ghc-events show` on an eventlog file created with `ghc -eventlog Test.hs` and `./Test +RTS -l`, where Test.hs contains: ``` import Debug.Trace main = traceEvent (replicate 510 'a' ++ "bcd") $ return () ``` Depends on D655. Reviewers: austin Reviewed By: austin Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D656 GHC Trac Issues: #8309
* Trac #9384: fix increasing capabilites number for eventlog.Alexander Vershilov2015-01-181-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Event log had inconcistent support for increacing capabilies number, as header were not inserted in capability buffer. It resulted in a ghc-events crash (see #9384). This commit fixes this issue by inserting required header when number of capabilies grows. Reviewers: simonmar, Mikolaj, trofi, austin Reviewed By: Mikolaj, trofi, austin Subscribers: carter, thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D592 GHC Trac Issues: #9384
* Revert "rts: add Emacs 'Local Variables' to every .c file"Simon Marlow2014-09-292-16/+0
| | | | This reverts commit 39b5c1cbd8950755de400933cecca7b8deb4ffcd.
* bugfix: EventCapsetID should be EventThreadIDSimon Marlow2014-09-291-1/+1
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* rts: add Emacs 'Local Variables' to every .c fileAustin Seipp2014-07-282-0/+16
| | | | | | | | This will hopefully help ensure some basic consistency in the forward by overriding buffer variables. In particular, it sets the wrap length, the offset to 4, and turns off tabs. Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
* rts: delint/detab/dewhitespace EventLog.cAustin Seipp2014-07-281-33/+36
| | | | Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
* rts: Fix #9003 with an annoying hackAustin Seipp2014-07-091-0/+5
| | | | | | | The TL;DR is that by adding this, we can distinguish GHC 7.8.3 from 7.8.2, which had a buggy implementation. See the ticket for details. Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
* rts: remove unused functions, fix validate on OS XAustin Seipp2014-03-271-7/+1
| | | | | | | After a toolchain update, Clang is no longer appreciative of the fact these are unused, thanks to -Werror during validate. Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
* Add a new traceMarker# primop for use in profiling outputDuncan Coutts2012-10-152-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | In time-based profiling visualisations (e.g. heap profiles and ThreadScope) it would be useful to be able to mark particular points in the execution and have those points in time marked in the visualisation. The traceMarker# primop currently emits an event into the eventlog. In principle it could be extended to do something in the heap profiling too.
* Deprecate lnat, and use StgWord insteadSimon Marlow2012-09-072-20/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | lnat was originally "long unsigned int" but we were using it when we wanted a 64-bit type on a 64-bit machine. This broke on Windows x64, where long == int == 32 bits. Using types of unspecified size is bad, but what we really wanted was a type with N bits on an N-bit machine. StgWord is exactly that. lnat was mentioned in some APIs that clients might be using (e.g. StackOverflowHook()), so we leave it defined but with a comment to say that it's deprecated.
* Define the task-tracking eventsDuncan Coutts2012-07-102-9/+101
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Based on initial patches by Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj@well-typed.com> These new eventlog events are to let profiling tools keep track of all the OS threads that belong to an RTS capability at any moment in time. In the RTS, OS threads correspond to the Task abstraction, so that is what we track. There are events for tasks being created, migrated between capabilities and deleted. In particular the task creation event also records the kernel thread id which lets us match up the OS thread with data collected by others tools (in the initial use case with Linux's perf tool, but in principle also with DTrace).
* A couple of build fixes for Win64Ian Lynagh2012-04-241-1/+4
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* Make the prototype for postHeapEvent match the definitionIan Lynagh2012-04-241-1/+1
| | | | I've assumed that the definition type is right.
* Add the GC_GLOBAL_SYNC event marking that all caps are stopped for GCMikolaj2012-04-041-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Quoting design rationale by dcoutts: The event indicates that we're doing a stop-the-world GC and all other HECs should be between their GC_START and GC_END events at that moment. We don't want to use GC_STATS_GHC for that, because GC_STATS_GHC is for extra GHC-specific info, not something we have to rely on to be able to match the GC pauses across HECs to a particular global GC.
* Fix the timestamps in GC_START and GC_END events on the GC-initiating capMikolaj2012-04-042-1/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | There was a discrepancy between GC times reported in +RTS -s and the timestamps of GC_START and GC_END events on the cap, on which +RTS -s stats for the given GC are based. This is fixed by posting the events with exactly the same timestamp as generated for the stat calculation. The calls posting the events are moved too, so that the events are emitted close to the time instant they claim to be emitted at. The GC_STATS_GHC was moved, too, ensuring it's emitted before the moved GC_END on all caps, which simplifies tools code.
* Adjust the eventlog description header for the spark counter eventDuncan Coutts2012-04-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | The EventLogFormat.h described the spark counter fields in a different order to that which ghc emits (the GC'd and fizzled fields were reversed). At this stage it is easier to fix the ghc-events lib and to have ghc continue to emit them in the current order.
* Add new eventlog events for various heap and GC statisticsDuncan Coutts2012-04-042-0/+150
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They cover much the same info as is available via the GHC.Stats module or via the '+RTS -s' textual output, but via the eventlog and with a better sampling frequency. We have three new generic heap info events and two very GHC-specific ones. (The hope is the general ones are usable by other implementations that use the same eventlog system, or indeed not so sensitive to changes in GHC itself.) The general ones are: * total heap mem allocated since prog start, on a per-HEC basis * current size of the heap (MBlocks reserved from OS for the heap) * current size of live data in the heap Currently these are all emitted by GHC at GC time (live data only at major GC). The GHC specific ones are: * an event giving various static heap paramaters: * number of generations (usually 2) * max size if any * nursary size * MBlock and block sizes * a event emitted on each GC containing: * GC generation (usually just 0,1) * total bytes copied * bytes lost to heap slop and fragmentation * the number of threads in the parallel GC (1 for serial) * the maximum number of bytes copied by any par GC thread * the total number of bytes copied by all par GC threads (these last three can be used to calculate an estimate of the work balance in parallel GCs)
* Add eventlog/trace stuff for capabilities: create/delete/enable/disableDuncan Coutts2012-04-042-9/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we can adjust the number of capabilities on the fly, we need this reflected in the eventlog. Previously the eventlog had a single startup event that declared a static number of capabilities. Obviously that's no good anymore. For compatability we're keeping the EVENT_STARTUP but adding new EVENT_CAP_CREATE/DELETE. The EVENT_CAP_DELETE is actually just the old EVENT_SHUTDOWN but renamed and extended (using the existing mechanism to extend eventlog events in a compatible way). So we now emit both EVENT_STARTUP and EVENT_CAP_CREATE. One day we will drop EVENT_STARTUP. Since reducing the number of capabilities at runtime does not really delete them, it just disables them, then we also have new events for disable/enable. The old EVENT_SHUTDOWN was in the scheduler class of events. The new EVENT_CAP_* events are in the unconditional class, along with the EVENT_CAPSET_* ones. Knowing when capabilities are created and deleted is crucial to making sense of eventlogs, you always want those events. In any case, they're extremely low volume.
* Allow the number of capabilities to be increased at runtime (#3729)Simon Marlow2011-12-062-6/+22
| | | | | At present the number of capabilities can only be *increased*, not decreased. The latter presents a few more challenges!
* Time handling overhaulSimon Marlow2011-11-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Terminology cleanup: the type "Ticks" has been renamed "Time", which is an StgWord64 in units of TIME_RESOLUTION (currently nanoseconds). The terminology "tick" is now used consistently to mean the interval between timer signals. The ticker now always ticks in realtime (actually CLOCK_MONOTONIC if we have it). Before it used CPU time in the non-threaded RTS and realtime in the threaded RTS, but I've discovered that the CPU timer has terrible resolution (at least on Linux) and isn't much use for profiling. So now we always use realtime. This should also fix The default tick interval is now 10ms, except when profiling where we drop it to 1ms. This gives more accurate profiles without affecting runtime too much (<1%). Lots of cleanups - the resolution of Time is now in one place only (Rts.h) rather than having calculations that depend on the resolution scattered all over the RTS. I hope I found them all.
* Drop ".exe" exetention from eventlog file nameDuncan Coutts2011-11-221-3/+18
| | | | Fixes ticket #5472
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